Afficionados of Indiana Jones will know exactly which sequence provides the perfect accompaniment to Kwasi Kwarteng’s Growth Plan announced last Friday. Towards the end of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, when Jones has to cross an unbridgeable crevasse he does so by stepping out with a leap of faith into the void. As his supposedly dying father says — to the audience, not Indy, who is too far away to hear — “you must believe”.
Jones, of course, crosses with no great difficulty. Whether our Chancellor of the Exchequer will be quite so fortunate is debatable. Like Jones, Kwarteng has made a leap of faith. Like Jones, he is hoping that a hitherto-invisible bridge will prevent him from plunging into the economic void.
